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Resit- inital Ideas Through Final Stage

Basics:My group wanted to create a short film opening for a psychological thriller that
would leave the audience wanting to watch the rest of the film and eager to learn the enravelling story.
Storyline / Characters:Our storyline was originally about a high classed family of a mother, father and one child of young daughter. It included children all over the UK going missing and it not being explained, with then the young daughter becoming the next victum with the family then trying to find out what happened. we then changed this storyline, because of casting issues we changed the father character to a teenage brother. we then also then added a reason to why the children were going missing we added a element of religon, which would then unravel within the film.

Resit - Inital Ideas

Here I wrote about my inital ideas for my film opening I included

• Locations and settings
• Characters
• Content of Film Opening
• Storylines

I wrote what I thought about these topics and plan on expanding my ideas.

Resit - Moodboard of Typical Audience member

Here I created a moodboard in order to show the target audience through images I wanted to show there is a range in ages over 15. I also wanted to make it clear it is for both males and females and that the target audience works well with the film opening.

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Media Evaluation on Prezi

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Final Stage of Inital Ideas on Prezi

Resit- Target audience

For our film we decided to give our film a 15 certification.

This means no-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ certified film in a cinema and no-one under the age of 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.We have chosen this as it will allow us to incorporate the required aspects of our genre such as the horror and psychological thriller.  A 15 allows a strong threat and menace unless sadistic which is what we are aiming for and dangerous behaviour. We may also look at using strong language at times in the piece and a 15 rating allows us to do this as long as it isn’t repeated.

Our film is a psychological thriller which is aimed at a British audience of whom are interested in mystery and horror.We are targeting the class groups B through to E, people of middle management, creativeness and teachers down to students and casual workers as all of these will be able to relate to our film.
Our film is based on a topic that is frequently brought up in the news which makes it easier for the variety of different demographic groupings to relate to the film. We are aiming our film at both men and women of about 15 years and above (as our film has a 15 certificate) as there isn’t anything to single out either men or women, the film depicts both genders equally.

Here is three films from my genre that have given me there target audience, release dates and figures to do with the films:

Usual Suspects (1995)
Budget $6,000,000 est.
UK box office gross £2,503,343
12/09/2005
Certificated 18

The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Budget $13,000,000 est.
UK box office gross  On opening weekend £735,287 (276 screens)
Certificated 15

Inception (2010)
Budget $160,000,000 est.
UK box office gross on opening weekend £5,919,814 (452 screens)
Certificated 12A

Resit- Generic Conventions Of A Psychological Thriller

Normally psychological thrillers (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical. 

Generic Conventions Include:

Sound:

With Psychological thrillers mainly use eerie music  to create suspense and keep the audience on edge.  After looking at sounds we will now use eerie sounds within our film opening.

Character:

 The characters can vary.

 Usually there is a  ‘antagonist’  within psychological thrillers, there could be a detective or police officer trying to uncover the crime that has been committed or stop the ‘antagonist’ from committing crimes.  After looking at the conventons of Characters we will now have a main protagonist and antagonist.

Camera angles and Shots:

Simple tracking movement to follow characters.

Close ups to show the emotions of characters fears are normally included to show the audience and therefore keep the audience up to date with how the character/ characters are feeling. 

 High angle shots to be able to see a wider viewing of the location and show the character is being intimated with whatever is happening within the scene or low angle shots could be used to make the 'antagonist' or 'protagonist' look powerful. After looking at camera angles and shots we will use certain shots in order to help create suspense and atmospheres within the piece for example we will need to use close ups to show emotion of the antagonist.

Lighting:

 Low key lighting is normally used to accompany the eerie mood of the music and to help create an atmosphere. we will then use low key lighting after looking at this convention to help build up our atmosphere.

Props:

Use of weapon like knives, guns, Blood and cuts and bruises if a killer is involved.

From looking at generic conventions for Psychological thrillers I have gained extra knowledge about what my film will need to include in order to be the best it can be. With what I have learnt I will then consider when planning and producing my film.